Founders

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Dr. D.G.S.Dhinakaran

Founder Chancellor Emeritus

Dr. D.G.S. Dhinakaran, C.A.I.I.B., Ph.D., D.D.(USA)., D.Litt.(Canada), a world renowned spiritual leader, is the Founder Chancellor Emeritus of Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences. He is the founder of the global Jesus Calls Ministry through which millions of people all over the world receive hope and solace. He started Karunya Institute of Technology on 4 October 1986 in spite of losing his only daughter in a tragic road accident on his way to Karunya on 21 May 1986. His vision for Karunya is that of a Technological Institution founded on faith, which will produce teachers, engineers and managers possessing the right combination of academic excellence, exemplary character and total humanism. They should serve the motherland and fellowmen and help raise the quality of life to global standards. Dr. D.G.S. Dhinakaran passed away on 20 February 2008.

Dr. Paul Dhinakaran

Chancellor

Dr. Paul Dhinakaran, M.B.A., Ph.D., is the Chancellor of Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences. He is an academician and educationist in his own right. Apart from this, he is an evangelist, who comforts millions of people through his ministry of hope and love. He heads Jesus Calls International Ministry with its outreach programmes all over the world. He produces the "Prayer Time" T.V. programme which is telecasted all over the world in 12 languages.

Dr. Paul Dhinakaran played a vital role to the cause of education in India as Member of National Monitoring Committee for Minority Education, Government of India and as member of the Governing Council of National Mission for Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, Government of India.

Thanks to his dynamic leadership and farsighted vision, the institution has made great strides along the path of progress. Karunya was the first self-financing Institution in the country to attain autonomy in 1999. In 2004, Deemed University status was conferred upon the Institution. The Chancellor has several plans to put Karunya on the world map of Engineering, Technology and Management Education.